50,000 Girls Disappear a Year
An article in the New York Times in 1913 made the dubious claim that over 50,000 girls were abducted each year when they migrated to cities. This is just one […]
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The Masses (January 1915-July 1915)
The Masses (A Socialist Magazine which was produced from 1911-1917. It describes itself as “a Magazine with a Sense of Humor and no Respect for the Respectable.”) James Hale–Nobody’s Sister–January 1915 […]
The Italian (1915)
Prolific producer Thomas H. Ince’s 1915 film The Italian starred George Beban, a stage and film actor noted for playing Italian immigrants (despite the fact that he was himself of […]
Children Who Labor (1912)
Written by Edith Browning and produced by the National Child Labor Committee, Children Who Labor (1912) tells the story of an immigrant father forced to allow his children to work […]